Details
SHERMAN, Gen. WILLIAM TECUMSEH (1820-1891). Cabinet photograph signed ("W.T. Sherman General"), by MATHEW BRADY, Washington, D.C. (imprint on margin), n.d. [circa 1865]. 153 x 100 mm. (6 x 4 in.) including mount, slightly oxidized. A formal portrait of the General in full military attire, signed on the lower margin.
"'War is hell,' the hard-fighting Union general said, and by 1864, the Confederacy knew it firsthand. In twenty-four days of devastation he marched his army from Atlanta to the sea, bringing the war to the home and hearth of the South"--W.M.
"'War is hell,' the hard-fighting Union general said, and by 1864, the Confederacy knew it firsthand. In twenty-four days of devastation he marched his army from Atlanta to the sea, bringing the war to the home and hearth of the South"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 231).